I agree with Rainer that the Amerikan left (including the settler ‘left’) are capable machines for revolution so long as they/we (we as in I, a white leftist) work alongside and under the leadership of the colonized masses. I also agree that treating the masses like an enemy is a failing strategy, and that Amerikan workers are benefiting from colonialism less and less - Amerika is not an extractivist social democracy like the Scandinavian countries, superprofits benefit a smaller and smaller caste of people as capitalism continues to devour itself, etc.
The RAWM shit is silly and acting like the disproportionate support Sakai gets from the non-white left is a problem that needs to be solved… blegh. Sakai has his value, Settlers had and has its value, even if some things have changed or some bits were slightly inaccurate. Its thesis is historically important, its history needs to be internalized so that the white left does not fall into the settler socialist praxis it so often has before.
RAWM is also astroturfed and they’re fucking proud of it. The anti-imperialist movement will not have Platinum, Gold, and Silver packages you can purchase to show your ‘level of support’, are you joking? Why the fuck should we consider RAWM the most important anti-war movement that currently exists when organizations like ANSWER, CodePink, PSL, PCUSA, Black Alliance for Peace, etc. are empirically doing far more? The media’s not reporting on it because those groups don’t buy out news rags or have the backing of Ron and Rand fucking Paul. Talk about settler socialism.
End point, just saying you’re totally right, givin my own two cents, etc.
I agree with Rainer that the Amerikan left (including the settler ‘left’) are capable machines for revolution so long as they/we (we as in I, a white leftist) work alongside and under the leadership of the colonized masses. I also agree that treating the masses like an enemy is a failing strategy, and that Amerikan workers are benefiting from colonialism less and less - Amerika is not an extractivist social democracy like the Scandinavian countries, superprofits benefit a smaller and smaller caste of people as capitalism continues to devour itself, etc.
The RAWM shit is silly and acting like the disproportionate support Sakai gets from the non-white left is a problem that needs to be solved… blegh. Sakai has his value, Settlers had and has its value, even if some things have changed or some bits were slightly inaccurate. Its thesis is historically important, its history needs to be internalized so that the white left does not fall into the settler socialist praxis it so often has before.
RAWM is also astroturfed and they’re fucking proud of it. The anti-imperialist movement will not have Platinum, Gold, and Silver packages you can purchase to show your ‘level of support’, are you joking? Why the fuck should we consider RAWM the most important anti-war movement that currently exists when organizations like ANSWER, CodePink, PSL, PCUSA, Black Alliance for Peace, etc. are empirically doing far more? The media’s not reporting on it because those groups don’t buy out news rags or have the backing of Ron and Rand fucking Paul. Talk about settler socialism.
End point, just saying you’re totally right, givin my own two cents, etc.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/562920